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Safe Sex - 3,224 words
Safe Sex Many theories and much research has been
conducted on contraception in general, and more
recently on condoms in particular, as a result of
the AIDS epidemic (Lear, 1995). Condom usage and
AIDS education are essential tools for reducing
the impact of the disease, yet fewer than one
third of sexually active college students report
consistent condom use (Seal & Palmer-Seal, 1996).
It seems that sexually active individuals rarely
discuss safer sex or ask about their partner`s
sexual activity before engaging in sexual activity
(Seal & Palmer-Seal, 1996). This raises some
questions as to the origin of the avoidance of
safer sex discussion. It has been found that the
interpersonal reaction ...
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Safe Sex - 3,349 words
... y more ⌠Takes Charge■ when they
proposed a condom (M = 5.29) than when they did
not (M = 4.52), F(1, 60) = 10.12, p = .002 (see
Table 2). However, The context sentence used did
not seem to alter observers responses, because a
main effect was not statistically evident (as seen
in Table 2). Similarly, no interactions were found
between the two independent variables for this
scale. Table 2: Mean Ratings of ⌠Takes
Charge■ as a Function of Condom Proposal and
Context Sentence Context Sentence NOTHING CONCERN
Condom NOTHING 4.63 4.4 4.52 Proposal "WITH ME"
5.27 5.31 5.29 4.94 4.87 A significant main effect
for context sentence was found for the
⌠Sexual Attractiven ...
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Abortion Is A Very Controversial Subject That Has Been - 1,341 words
... fe, 92% 2. Not mature enough or too young to
have a child, 81% 3. Can't afford baby now, 73% 4.
Doesn't want others to know she had sex or is
pregnant, 42% 5. Doesn't want to be a single
parent, 37% 6. Unready for responsibility, 33%
There have been many studies done on smaller
groups that expressed the exact same reasons for
having an abortion. Older women were more likely
to say that their families were complete while
younger women said that a baby would interfere
with education, career, and personal freedom. At
any age women say they have too many
responsibilities and not enough money to take care
of a baby. The reasons for which the public is
approving of abortions is not always the ...
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Aids - 1,443 words
AIDS Gonzales 1 The Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (AIDS) was first discovered in 1981 as a
unique and newly recognized infection of the
body's immune system (Mellors 3). The name AIDS
was formally know as GRIDS (Gay Related Immune
Defiance Syndrome). The first case of AIDS was
discovered in Los Angeles, where scientists from
the CDC (Center for Disease Control) were called
in on a half dozen cases. The CDC was convinced
what they were seeing was a new strand of virus.
None of the staff members had ever seen a strand
of virus that could do so much destruction to the
immune system like this one did. Many theories
about this disease were in question. Many
scientists believed it originated ...
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Aids And Std Education - 1,602 words
... Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually
transmitted diseases are a major health concern
for our country. With the spread of AIDS among so
many people, both gay and heterosexual, it is
important that we understand how these diseases
spread and what we can do to prevent them. During
the 1980s, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
infection, the cause of AIDS, emerged as a leading
cause of death in the United.States). In 1993, HIV
infection became the most common cause of death
among persons aged 25-44 years.(Center for Disease
Control) Studies have shown a need for educational
interventions and future in-depth studies of
college students. An example is a study which
showed that a group of ...
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Appraising Gods Property - 1,016 words
Appraising God's Property Young women face so many
challenges in their lifetime, and the book Audios,
Barbie displays several of the trials and
tribulations that each individual young lady might
encounter. The bulk of the stories deal with body
image and self-identity, and I chose to focus on a
particular story titled, "Appraising God's
Property", by Keesa Schreane. She works out in her
essay a backward situation of being part of the
"in" crowd or the "out" crowd. To emphasize a
problem in this area I also located an article to
contrast and compare to Keesa's essay, which was
written by Fiona Stewart, of Deakin University,
concerning the "Implications of Reputation for
Young Women's Sexual H ...
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Birth Control Education - 2,076 words
Birth Control Education Birth Control Education
The issue of birth control being taught and/or
distributed in public schools is one worth
debating. In biology and health classes students
are educated in reproduction and sexuality, but
not about such birth control methods such as
condoms and birth control pills. While parents may
touch briefly on the topic, some feel too
embarrassed to discuss it with their children or
deem it unnecessary. This is a very bad course of
action because the world is now teaming with
hormonally driven teenagers lacking vital
information about personal safety. They have a
longing to practice the oldest instinct that
humans possess, which is to procreate. The school ...
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Condom Distribution Vs Abstinence In Schools - 1,824 words
Condom Distribution Vs. Abstinence In Schools
CONDOM DISTRIBUTION VS. ABSTINENCE IN SCHOOLS
Sexual Education was introduced to the American
Public School System in 1913, at the beginning of
this century. Superintendent of Schools, Ella
Flagg Young promoted the teaching of sex
education, and implemented sex hygiene lectures in
the Chicago, IL, school system. The goal then was
to reduce social problems such as venereal disease
and prostitution by educating the public about
sex. Now, in the last year of the 20th century,
goals are different, but the conflicting opinions
on sexual education are still going strong. Health
promotion goals for teenagers include postponement
of sexual activity until ...
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Condoms In Hs - 1,222 words
Condoms In Hs Distribution of Condoms in Public
High Schools Coinciding with the onslaught of the
new millennium, schools are beginning to realize
that the parents are not doing their job when it
comes to sexual education. The school system
already has classes on sexual education; these
classes are based mainly on human anatomy. Most
schools do not teach their students about
relationships, morals, respect, self-discipline,
self-respect, and most importantly contraceptives.
Everyday students engage in sexual activity, many
of them with out condoms. This simple act
jeopardizes these students futures and possibly
their lives. An increasing amount of school
systems are starting to combine messag ...
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Condoms In Hs - 1,221 words
... tegies for educating faculty and students,
problems, and tactics for distributing and
encouraging the use of condoms among teens who are
sexually active. Data collected in 1991 and 1993
suggests that the presence of the condom
availability plan did not increase the rates of
sexual activity among students, although it may
have contributed to safer sex. Schools without the
program had a two-percent increase of students who
had sex in the previous four weeks. Schools with
the condom availability plan had a three- percent
drop of students who have had sex in the previous
four weeks. This is believed to be a result of the
information provided by the school about sex and
harmful effects it can ...
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Cowley, Geoffrey Sleeping With The Enemy Newsweek December 9, 1992 Pg 5859 - 519 words
Cowley, Geoffrey. Sleeping With the Enemy.
Newsweek. December 9, 1992. Pg. 58-59. Major
points: 1. Syphilis is still rare compared with
other sexually transmitted diseases. 2. Gonorrhea
is not as popular as it used to be, but chlamydia
on the other hand is the most common sexually
transmitted disease. 3. Genital herpes and genital
warts have no cure. 4. Sex is the leading mode of
transmission of the hepatitis B virus. 5. Aids is
incurable, and unlike the others, it always kills.
Syphilis is still rare compared with other
sexually transmitted diseases. The bacterium that
causes syphilis is treponema palidum. This causes
genital lesions called chancres. These normally go
away on their own but ...
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Criminals - 1,335 words
Criminals Do prisons teach people to become worse
criminals? Many people think that a prisoner is
taught how to be a better criminal while in
prison. Prisoners are integrated with people that
have committed worse crimes than the ones that
they have committed. The bigger and better
criminals teach the others what they need to learn
to survive prison life. There are many other
aspects of prison that can make a prisoner worse
than when he or she went in. Are prisons helping
to stop the crime wave? For starters, prisons
around the United States are extremely
overcrowded. Wyoming is a good example of
overcrowding in prisons. We have had to send a
number of prisoners to Colorado because we have ru ...
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Cyber Porn - 1,583 words
Cyber Porn Imagine a place where you have access
to anything and everything one could want. Some
would say that is only existent in a utopia, and
some would say that describes the Internet. Many
adults go on to the net and access pornographic
material that would be unsuitable for children.
This is called cyberporn. The controversy lies in
the fact that children are accessing these
materials also. Government, activist groups, and
concerned parents are fighting to regulate obscene
material found over the Internet to protect
children. The first amendment is the only thing
protecting adults from losing their rights to
obtain pornographic or indecent material on the
net. Under the first amendment ...
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Cyber Porn - 1,569 words
... our economy can not say no to (Rosen 15).
"There are means of controlling material that
parents do not want their kids to view (Levy 21)."
Several devises already exist for parents that
will help them filter out what they do not want
their children to see. Surfwatch, a software
package, allows parents to have a list of
forbidden sites that can not be reached. It also
always parents to program it to watch for any kind
of obscene language (Miller and Mauro 85). PICS
are rating and filtering technology. Parents or a
third party can set up a self-censor program to
their values for any document online that is PICS
compatible. This always each household to censor
out information found to be of ...
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During A Recent Survey Conducted At Florida Atlantic University, Seven Students Were Interviewed Regarding Their Knowledge An - 1,051 words
During a recent survey conducted at Florida
Atlantic University, seven students were
interviewed regarding their knowledge and beliefs
in safe sex practices and teen pregnancy. When
asked what they thought of teen pregnancy, all of
the respondees were very similar to each other.
Dianne Mendez stated that, "Teens are having
sexual intercourse from the ages of thirteen
through sixteen, and that probably one out of
three get pregnant." All of the students that were
involved in the survey responded that teens should
not be having sex or even thinking about having a
baby, if they were not financially stable. Sandra
Mendez said that, "Teenagers are not ready to have
babies and not mentally mature ...
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Education Of Sex In Schools - 1,693 words
Education Of Sex In Schools Education of Sex in
Schools Sex is something that almost everyone will
experience before they die. It is a subject that
has been debated about for years. From the debate
over birth control to the outbreak of aids. With
all this history behind us, sex is becoming even
more of an issue. With the new outbreaks of
sexually transmitted diseases and the fact that
sexually active persons are becoming younger, sex
has now become a daily topic. Sex scandals in the
media and talk such as "who slept with who at last
night's keg party" are making these daily
conversations apparent in high schools, middle
schools, and in a lot of cases grade schools. As
the saying goes "monkey ...
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Hiv And Aids - 912 words
Hiv And Aids Aileen-Jayne Ablaza April 27, 2000
Com 100/ Dequer Informative Speech HIV and AIDS
Good afternoon everyone. Today I would like to
inform you all about HIV, human immunodeficiency
virus, and AIDS, aquired immune deficiency
syndrome. Statistics show that about 35% of AIDS
cases have been in the age group of 20-29. Now
many of you may already know that AIDS has a long
period between infection with the virus and the
appearance of symptoms. Meaning that some of those
people between the ages 20 and 29 probably
contracted the virus when they were teenagers.
Being that most of us in this room fall near or in
that age range, my goal today is to inform you of
how the virus is contracted, ...
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Human Values And Ethics Vs Philisophical Ethics - 1,353 words
... nature and it's laws. He was arguing that
everything in nature operates in conformity with
certain rules and standards. More specifically,
Kantian personal moral law -- "categorical
imperative" says the following: "Act as if the
maxim [that is the subjective governing principle]
of your action were to become through your will a
universal law of nature" (p. 31 Grounding for the
Metaphysics of Morals). Now, could you imagine
what it would be like, if abortion had became 'a
universal law of nature?' The existence of human
species would come to an end. Therefore, I think
that deontologists, based on the facts I've just
given, would consider abortion in general as an
immoral thing to do. Neve ...
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Inschool Condom Distribution: Quite Unnecessary - 609 words
In-School Condom Distribution: Quite Unnecessary
With the rather dramatic increase in teenage
pregnancies and the higher rates of sexually
transmitted diseases in recent years, the issue of
safe sex among teenagers has been thrown into the
national spotlight. One of the many potential
fixes for this problem is in school condom
distribution. This proposal has gained the favor
of many anti AIDS groups because of its promises
to increase condom usage among sexually active
teenagers. However, it is my belief that the
drawbacks of distributing condoms in school far
outweigh any potential benefits to the students.
The distribution of condoms in school gives the
image that the school is in favor of ...
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Marijuana - 1,773 words
Marijuana What is Marijuana. Marijuana is a green,
brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded leaves,
stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp plant. You
may hear marijuana called by street names such as
pot, herb, weed, grass, boom, Mary Jane, gangster,
or chronic. There are more than 200 slang terms
for marijuana. Sinsemilla, hashish, and hash oil
are stronger forms of marijuana. All forms of
marijuana are mind-altering. In other words, they
change how the brain works. They all contain THC
(delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the main active
chemical in marijuana. They also contain more than
400 other chemicals. Marijuana's effects on the
user depend on the strength or potency of the THC
it contain ...
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